But of course the whole
University knew about his second performance. Some of its members had
witnessed it, and all of them had read about it, next day, in Churchton's
four-page "Index."
The president's wife was a sprightly lady, who believed in keeping up the
social end of things. Her Thursdays offered coffee and chocolate at a
handsomely appointed table, and a little dancing, now and then, for the
livelier of the young professors and the daughters of the town's best-known
families; above all, she insisted on "receiving"--even on having a
"receiving line." She would summon, for example, the wife of one of the
most eminent members of the faculty and the obliging spouse of some
educationally-minded banker or manufacturer; and she herself always stood,
of course, at the head of her line. When Cope came along with Randolph, she
intercepted the flow of material for her several assistants farther on, and
carried congestion and impatience into the waiting queue behind by
detaining him and "having it out."
She caught his hand with a good, firm, nervous grasp, and flashed on him a
broad, meaningful smile.
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